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Classroom shortage
The Philippine Star
|August 15, 2025
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Corruption affects all aspects of government services. The current focus is on flood control, due to massive flooding last month that forced the suspension of classes and government work for a week in Metro Manila and several other areas in Luzon.
But apart from flood control, the Department of Education is also calling attention to the slow construction of classrooms. A Senate inquiry showed that it took up to three years to finish the construction of classrooms, at a cost of at least P2.5 million each. Little wonder that public schools under DepEd have a shortage of 165,000 classrooms.
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